PowerMac G5 and FreeBSD 9.0-current: no disks?

Torfinn Ingolfsen torfinn.ingolfsen at broadpark.no
Tue Jan 25 13:57:42 UTC 2011


On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:25:42 -0500
Justin Hibbits <chmeeedalf at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jan 24, 2011, at 8:47 PM, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:19:59 -0800
> > Gary <gdriggs at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hold down the left mouse button during power-on. Some drives in the
> >> G5s have a barely reachable eject button on the front if you pull  
> >> down
> >> the drive slot door. One of mine actually had the physical eject
> >> button removed so it's a bit of a hassle if I want to swap install
> >> discs.
> >
> > I should have been more specific; I want to open the cd drive from  
> > within FreeBSD.
> > (I knew about that mouse button down)
> 
> I always just use 'cdcontrol eject' for that.

(facepalm) I should have remembered. Thanks for jogging my memory.
-- 
Torfinn



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